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rickair7777

01-06-2017 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by USMCFLYR (Post 2275848)

I don't know if it was planned this way - but from my understanding, the *new* parallel runway was built to close to the original runway and they will be using the *old* runway as a parallel surface as a taxiway.

This could be an old wive's tale :confused:

That's what ground told me when I asked.

E175 Driver

01-06-2017 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by N6279P (Post 2275863)

That's not true at all. The airline I work for operated all of its flights there yesterday.

Mesa??....

toolowterrain

01-06-2017 11:27 AM

Similar thing in Ashville, NC.

Single runway at airport needed to be extended. So they built a temp runway right next to it and numbered it 35 instead if 34.

Never knew how wide 150' is till I landed in a 100' wide runway on the RJ in hard IMC. Im sure the airbus folks love it also. At least the put an ILS on the temp. runway there.

USMCFLYR

01-06-2017 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine (Post 2275851)

I don't think XNA is big enough to warrant parallel runways. I think the previous post about needing a new runway was more accurate. It may have something to do with a minimum distance needed between the runway and the parallel taxiway. I know a few airports that had to move the runway further from the taxiway.

And maybe that was the 'too close' part - but that original runway and parallel runway was there for a LONG time before they started building that new runway. I'll agree with you that KXNA doesn't seem to have the traffic to *need* two runways. Maybe if I'm there working on some of the recent procedures/etc... I'll have the chance to engage the airport authority and satisfy my curiousity. :)

knewyork

01-06-2017 09:21 PM

The ILS 34 in XNA is operational. Different freq than charted.

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